Monday, January 16, 2006

At sunday we went to lake Berryessa and Sacramento. Berryessa is an artifical lake on the route 128 on the way to Nappa and its a really need drive, but not mucht to see.

Sacramento on the other hand is a normal big ugly city with one or two nice locations. We found one...

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something about my style of pictures

so the most people are asking them self now, why are all these pictures in this special style, called septia. Maybe I like this style and it gives them an interessting touch. For example which picture is nicer?



the black white modus is just way to cold and is better for portraits anyways. The sepia is kinda warm and looks interessting and the original, is just boring and didn't say anything. except for look its foggy out here and I'm a tree.

but sometimes if you want to show someting with nice colors at a sunny day, for example macro shots from plants, you won't choose sepia.



in this example its obious, the natural flower is the nicest one. And black&sepia are just looking wrong. Another really good example are clouds.

so cunclusion, for landscapes sepia can look nice and should be used very carfully with everything else?

What are you doing on a nice rainy saturday? After a short stop in Walnut Creek I drove to San Francisco to pick 2 of my friends up and made with them a tour throw San Francisco. The traffic was like ever well organized, means the half city was shutdown and the other half was pissed and vrowed because of this. A while later and 68 pictures, my cam tol me, no more memory, please insert another card, wtf. I need a bigger SD Card 512MB are to small and to get all 45 minutes the laptop and transfer the data, it sucks. So I made some calculations, a fast SD Card with 512 MB cost 80$, with 1GB cost 130$, 2GB cost 250$ and a palm lifedrive which can hold 4 GB (and is an organizer) cost 400$. So the question is what should I get, a portable storage solution, which can hold 400 picures, or some more
SD cards which can only hold pictures? The problem is just that I'm broke, don't want to spend anymore money and affraid about the lifedrive, because it has so bad reviews.... And don't really need a palm, its just nicer to carry arround instead of a laptop and is the same price like 2 sd cards. We shoot close to 3 GB pictures this weekend.

anyway, after we left San Francisco, we went to Vacaville (middle of nowhere) because stepan and katja have to go shopping... a while later, actually a long time later we finally got to davis (next to the middle of nowhere), made dinner and afterwards we went to the graduate for country night...

...it was interressting.

other pictures from SF you can find under: here